At least a dozen pro-Palestinian demonstrators were detained by police at the University of California, Irvine as they cleared an encampment in front of a lecture hall on Wednesday. The incident occurred when a group of several hundred protestors entered the UC Irvine campus and surrounded the Physical Sciences Lecture Hall around 2:30 p.m. The university issued an emergency update and called for assistance from local law enforcement, including the Irvine Police Department and Orange County Sheriff’s Department.
Aerial footage from news networks showed law enforcement using zip ties to restrain protesters and escorting them away from the encampment towards a parking lot. The police started breaking up the encampment shortly after 5:10 p.m., with officers surrounding the group of tents outside the hall and detaining several protesters.
